Facebook has actually now begun supporting & playing GIFs animations, however the GIFs do not move if submitted straight to the Facebook site. There's a particular basic approach which has to be practiced to guarantee that your GIFs always stimulate on Facebook-- So here's a small tutorial on how you can Include or Upload & Post animated GIFs on Facebook PC & mobile Site as well as Facebook Mobile App for Android & iPhone-iPad (iOS). This method even lets you publish GIFs as Facebook status upgrade, or in comments, or in Personal Messaging too! How To Post An Animated Gif On Facebook.

 

How To Post An Animated Gif On Facebook

1. Getting the Direct URL of GIF from another host, That is publishing GIF on some other server and copying its Direct Link.

2. Pasting the Direct Link of GIF into the Facebook Text Window (Status/ Comment/ Messaging) and Publishing it! That's it! (You have successfully added an animated GIF on Facebook-- Now let's have a look onto each step in information).

Pre-Requistes.

• A GIF You can use the existing GIFs or you can even produce a new one utilizing the respective approaches.

Creating GIF on Android-- Usage Graphica App for Android. Graphica even lets you produce GIFs utilizing frames, and has an inbuilt direct facebook share choice which you can directly use to share Andimated GIFs on Facebook.

Develop a GIF on iPhone-- Follow this connected tutorial to Produce & View GIFs on iPhone (Uploading GIFs to facebook will require some additonal methods).

Approach.

• Now, considering you have your GIF files all set, Firstly Upload the GIF files to an image-hosting website which supports hotlinking, (for e.g You can utilize Giphy.com, UltraImg.com to upload your GIFs and get the direct links. for example in our tutorial we will be using Giphy.com as our image host.


• Navigate to http://giphy.com/upload and Publish your Existing GIF by drag and droping your GIFs onto the upload Window as revealed in the below image.

Now it will start submitting your GIF onto the Giphy server. Now you have to agree to their Terms of Service and then click the "Upload GIFs" button.

Now as soon as you have submitted your GIF onto Giphy, it will load a preview window, Now scroll-down to the bottom of the GIF image sneak peek and choose "Advanced" alternative.

• As soon as you pick "Advanced" alternative it will provide you with various links, Now just "Copy" "ctrl+ c" the GIF Download Link as shown in the image below.

Note-- Giphy does notes that Giphy links preview in Facebook & Twitter however Giphy Links do not animate by default and hence we are utilizing the GIF Download Hyperlinks.

• Now, Open Facebook.com-- And Paste the GIF Download Link into the "Update Status" field, and wait until the sneak peek loads as displayed in the image below.

Note-- If the preview does not fill even if you pasted the

appropriate link, Please refill the page and try again until the preview appears. (If you're using the Facebook mobile app-- The very same approach makes an application for Facebook app as well, paste the direct link into Update Status field and work for the sneak peek to load.

• Once the preview is loaded, Merely Click "Post" and voila! you will see the GIF is animating and moving, hence you have actually successfully published Animated GIFs on Facebook!


• Quick Suggestion-- You can even eliminate the pasted link, when the preview is loaded so that no one can guess how you did it, If you deal with any problems while using this method don't hesitate to comment.

We highly suggest utilizing Graphica App for Android for posting the GIFs on Facebook, as it automatically does the complete job of producing GIF, uploading, and copy-pasting the URL for you, and besides it also supplies awesome Frame Live GIFs option so you can style your GIFs as well!

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